Lucid
adj, name, noun ·Common ·High school level
Definitions
- 1 A lucid dream.
"The day before nightmare-initiated lucids, subjects reported more depressed feelings[…]"
- 1 Clear; easily understood.
"[T]he book, constructed in short, lucid episodes, can be satisfyingly read as a sequence of provocative talks, at once well informed and vatic."
- 2 Mentally rational; sane.
- 3 Bright, luminous, translucent, or transparent.
"The atmosphere was unusually clear, as if loath to part with the daylight; but the moon, like a round of lucid snow, had risen on the sky; and a pale, soft gleam, came from the lamps amid the foliage."
- 1 (of language) transparently clear; easily understandable wordnet
- 2 transmitting light; able to be seen through with clarity wordnet
- 3 capable of thinking and expressing yourself in a clear and consistent manner wordnet
- 4 having a clear mind wordnet
- 1 A surname from Irish.
Example
More examples"People that have experienced so-called 'lucid dreams' often describe them as being 'more real than reality'. They also describe reality after waking up from a 'lucid dream' to be like a 'whimsical dream'."
Etymology
Latin lucidus, from lūceō (“shine”) + -idus.
Perhaps a variant of Lucey.
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